Security News > 2021 > July > 36% of organizations suffered a serious cloud security data leak or a breach in the past year

As cloud adoption accelerates and the scale of cloud environments grows, engineering and security teams say that risks-and the costs of addressing them-are increasing.

The survey of 300 cloud pros found that 36% of organizations suffered a serious cloud security data leak or a breach in the past 12 months, and eight out of ten are worried that they're vulnerable to a major data breach related to cloud misconfiguration.

"The adoption of IaC is a double-edged sword, it puts cloud infrastructure into the hands of developers, but also opens organizations to serious risk associated with misconfiguration." said Matt Howard, EVP, Sonatype.

Traditional security challenges play a significant role in cloud security, such as alert fatigue and false positives, and human error.

The demand for cloud security expertise continues to outpace supply; 36% cite challenges in hiring and retaining the cloud security experts and 35% cite challenges sufficiently training their cloud teams on security.

The adoption of IaC presents cloud teams with the opportunity to check configurations pre-deployment, with half of the teams surveyed investing 50+ engineering hours per week on IaC security.

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